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Hacking the Samsung Galaxy S8 Irisscanner → Mobile vendors have established fingerprints as a biometric feature to unlock smartphones. Now they turn to iris recognition, as do hackers. This video demonstrates how to circumvent the iris recognition of the Samsung Galaxy S8 flagship phone only using basic tools. The linked video clearly shows that you don’t need expensive hardware to bypass the iris scanner. The text was automatically translated from German into English. The German quotations were also translated in sense. ...

Paul Farhi writes in »The Washington Post’s new slogan turns out to be an old saying« for washingtonpost.com Woodward’s source appears to be Judge Damon J. Keith of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, who ruled in a pre-Watergate case that the government couldn’t wiretap individuals without a warrant. In his decision, Keith apparently coined a variation of The Post’s motto, writing that “Democracy dies in the dark.” ...

Leslie Clio - Be With You (Acoustic) → I much prefer Leslie Clio’s acoustic version of the song to the original. The text was automatically translated from German into English. The German quotations were also translated in sense.

Tom Goodwin “Uber, the world’s largest taxi company, owns no vehicles. Facebook, the world’s most popular media owner, creates no content. Alibaba, the most valuable retailer, has no inventory. And Airbnb, the world’s largest accommodation provider, owns no real estate” The text was automatically translated from German into English. The German quotations were also translated in sense.

Why city flags may be the worst-designed thing you’ve never noticed Roman Mars is obsessed with flags — and after you watch this talk, you might be, too. These ubiquitous symbols of civic pride are often designed, well, pretty terribly. But they don’t have to be. In this surprising and hilarious talk about vexillology — the study of flags — Mars reveals the five basic principles of flag design and shows why he believes they can be applied to just about anything. ...